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The visual novel deluge shows no signs of stopping although at least A Hero and a Garden is more of a clicker than a choose your own adventure. Coming from npckc, this knight’s story features some green thumb gardening and some charming life lessons. Simple in its approach, there’s a […]

A Hero and A Garden – PS4 Review

9 Sep, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged a hero and a garden / clicker / idle / knight / monsters / narratively-driven / npckc by Mike

From Lucky Mountain Games (aka Trevor Ley) in conjunction with Sumo Nottingham, published by Curve Digital, comes Hotshot Racing. Formerly known as Racing Apex and some ten years in the making, initially being intended as an iOS release. For anyone as long in the tooth as we are, it’s pretty […]

Hotshot Racing – PS4 Review

9 Sep, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged am2 / arcade racer / blue skies in gaming / hotshot racing / racing apex by Ian

You can feel the winds changing, we are at the edge of a new console generation and the anticipation for the future is downright palpable. It’s a time to be looking forward to what is coming for sure, but also the time in which the current generation is supposed to […]

Ary and the Secret of Seasons – PS4 Review

7 Sep, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Ary / Autumn / Framerate / Secret of Seasons / spring / summer / winter by Grizz

As the clumsily structured name might tell you, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is a remaster of the original Kingdoms of Amalur, an open-world RPG that came out for last gen consoles back in 2012. However, despite sporting a real pedigree in terms of the people behind it, the game underperformed commercially and […]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning – PS4 Review

7 Sep, 2020 in PS4 tagged adventure / hack and slash / kingdoms of amalur / rpg / skyrim by Richie

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 is a compendium of the two classic PS1 skateboarding games and it has finally been released to much acclaim and huge outpourings of nostalgic glee. Sure, we live in an age where a lot of well-loved games get a fresh coat of paint and […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 – PS4 Review

7 Sep, 2020 in PS4 tagged remake / Remastered / rodney mullen is lord / skating / tony hawk by Richie

The original Wasteland was a precursor to Fallout, the old, good ones. Wasteland 3 has far more in common with those tactical, turn based RPGs than what Fallout has become under Bethesda and it’s all the better for it. Obviously it’s set in a post-apocalypse and it requires a massive […]

Wasteland 3 – PS4 Review

7 Sep, 2020 in PS4 tagged fallout / post-apocalypse / rpg / strategy / tactical / wasteland / xcom by Gareth

From Honey ∞ Parade Games, Shade Game Development and publisher Marvelous! comes the extremely Japanese Kandagawa Jet Girls. This is a licenced game of the anime of the same name in which the jetter is the pilot of the jetski and the shooter is, well, you work it out. The […]

Kandagawa Jet Girls – PS4 Review

4 Sep, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged japan / kandagawa / schoolgirls / sketchy / weeb by Ian

Kylotonn’s handling of the long-running WRC series has seen it steadily refined into a formidable off-road simulation. I felt that last year’s effort was a real step forward with a substantial career mode and some stunning recreations of the Championship’s dirt and gravel roads. In this, the most strangest of […]

WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship – PS4 Review

3 Sep, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dirt / GRAVEL / kylotonn / motorsport / mud / rallying / time trial / wrc 9 fia world rally championship by Mike

Remnant: From the Ashes has been a good time. The previous DLC, Swamps of Corsus, was not really what I was expecting. Adding more events and bosses to an area that was already in the game was a little disappointing but the addition of Survival Mode was excellent with a […]

Remnant: From the Ashes – Subject 2923 – DLC Review

2 Sep, 2020 in PS4 tagged dark souls / dlc / online co-op / random / remnant: from the ashes / subject 2923 / swamps of corsus by Gareth

I’m having a hard time with the visual novel genre. There’s something about the writing in general that puts me off. It’s a very wordy genre and it’s all very geared towards telling, rather than showing. The next one on my docket is Cinders, from MoaCube. It’s a retelling of […]

Cinders – PS4 Review

29 Aug, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged choices / cinderella / cinders / fairytale / godmother / moacube / narratively-driven / visual novel by Mike

When I first watched the trailer for Windbound, I thought the same as many would have done when seeing a cartoonish cel-shaded title that bore a more than striking resemblance to that of the later Zelda games. It was only after diving into the game that I found that this […]

Windbound – PS4 Review

28 Aug, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged breath of the wild / inspired / not zelda / ps4 / Windbound / windwaker / zelda by Grizz

Shing! is a side-scrolling hack and slasher very much in the grand tradition of games such as Golden Axe and, more recently, Castle Crashers. This is a genre that doesn’t make as many appearances these days as others. We’re forever reviewing top-down shooters and 2D platform games but, clearly, the golden […]

Shing! – PS4 Review

28 Aug, 2020 in PS4 tagged anime / Beat em up / hack and slasher / shing! / sword by Richie